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Noun(1) (law(2) the act of stripping and taking by force(3) (law) the intentional destruction of a document or an alteration of it that destroys its value as evidence

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(1) Urban expansion was contained, agricultural and forest management balanced, and attempts were made to redress spoliation .(2) So far, eight cases of alleged Nazi-era spoliation have emerged in the UK.(3) All were acutely aware of the cultural richness of their country and all deeply appalled at the spoliation of their very special heritage and felt that their national identity had been attacked and undermined.(4) Eventually, this would lead to its physical spoliation , but that was in the future.(5) The spoliation of the Church compounded such problems.(6) Profoundly controversial to contemporaries, this was an unparalleled secular spoliation of ecclesiastical property.(7) the spoliation of the Church(8) It is all a question of achieving a balance.; it would be counter-productive if we were to swing from the excesses of the 80s when demolition and spoliation were rife, to a kind of conservation bureaucracy or totalitarianism.(9) There was also a change in outlook, as spoliation was no longer viewed narrowly as wartime looting, but as also covering losses suffered by Jewish collectors in Germany after the Nazis seized power in 1933.(10) None of us wants to feel responsible for the spoliation of sites, but even there the acquisitions process is not as guilty as is often alleged.(11) the spoliation of the countryside(12) In August 2003 the museum approached the Attorney General to ask whether he has the power to authorise the museum trustees to restitute in the case of Nazi-era spoliation .(13) All the popular organisations are invited to cooperate in the struggle against the spoliators of food supplies.(14) Such sanctions, however, are ineffective against third party spoliators , who are not parties to the lawsuit and are not subject to the authority of the court.(15) Unless the spoliator can meet this burden with a sufficient explanation, he will likely lose the case.(16) The third-party spoliator must overcome the rebuttable presumption or else be liable for damages.
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Noun
1. despoliation
2. spoil


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